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    [–] synicalx@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

    Coding in Ansible?

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Sorry maybe I'm dumb. But does this mean VIM and Obsidian are Vi?

    [–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

    I usually refer to im as "vi" just to ~~make people think I'm old school and cool~~ save time typing that last character.

    But Obsidian??

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    Oh yes. My "excell isn't a database" program. Obsidian.

    [–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 1 points 32 minutes ago

    I want to understand this comment!

    [–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

    Vi is actually a predecessor to Vim but many people, myself included, will alias Nvim or Vim to Vi. And I've seen people use Vi as a catch all too.

    [–] BlackXanthus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    The comments on this post went exactly like they have over the past 20 years, with one exception.

    Emacs is all but forgoten.

    Vim wins.

    [–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

    I don't know, I used vim for like 6 years and then discovered, thanks to the power of evil and doom, how much better the vi experience is inside the context of emacs. With all the utilities and packages, it's worth the small additional burden of troubleshooting that it imposes.

    Be real fukin careful now. You’ll tear my enacs from my cold dead hands

    (But yeah, I use evil-mode. Also I edit files on remote servers with vim. I’m a traitor…)

    [–] geoff@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    When people are free to choose the best editor for them, we ALL win.

    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

    Unless it happens to be Ms word, in which case we all lose

    [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Recently, I recommended to a friend that basic vim/vi is worth learning because it's a baseline that you can always trust will be there across different Linux systems.

    They asked me what I used most on my home system, and the answer was emacs, but I was very clear that I was not recommending it. It's a particular kind of person who finds themselves at home in emacs, and for everyone besides those people, selling them on emacs would feel like persuading them to do hard drugs.

    [–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
    [–] absentbird@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

    Basically every Unix-derived OS comes with vi. Emacs came out in 1976, macs didn't exist until 1984.

    [–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    Yes and it's better than TextEdit that is bundled with MacOs

    [–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I think there's a good reason for that. If you're not as concerned about resource consumption (Emacs used to be called "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping", back when 8MB was a lot), then there's no reason to avoid even more complex and resource intensive IDEs. People who wanted a complex editor, but in a relatively small footprint, stuck with some variant of vi.

    Thus, vi found a stable evolutionary niche. It's a tardigrade.

    [–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

    you have offended all 6 of us, prepare for retribution

    [–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Bro you forgot the 'm' at the end of vi

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    [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] zorro@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

    LXIX my balls! Haha got'em.

    Believe it or not, this is the second time I got to make that joke within an hour.

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    [–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    We don't want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!

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    [–] geoff@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago (14 children)
    [–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago

    Emacs

    It's a sound choice. I don't like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don't own (ex. customers). And, I'm not a fan of Lisp. It's a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.

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    [–] AntY@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Vi hasn’t been updated since 2005. Aren’t everyone just using vim or neovim?

    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    I use whatever the machine gives me when I type vi, I assume it's usually vim

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